Berswordt
Berswordt is the name of a German noble family that comes from the former free imperial city of Dortmund . The lords of the Berswordt belonged to the oldest and most important city noble families in Dortmund and Soest .
history
The family named itself after a settlement of the same name near the Nikolaikirche in Dortmund. The family was first mentioned in a document in 1249 with the patrician Lambertus de Beresword , with whom the tribe series probably began . In the city council of Dortmund members of the family appear from 1261. Until 1803 were times when 30 of them more than 400 councilors elected, with 108 times as mayor . Around 1800 a Berswordter was referred to as the last "Patricius" of Dortmund.
Members of the family organized themselves early on in the Dortmund Junker Society and later in the aristocratic society on the Richthaus. In Soest they belonged to the star society. In Dortmund, but especially in Soest, they gradually became land nobility. The city and country nobility in Soest and the Soest Börde has in 1800 from the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. even got its own uniform, like the knighthood of the county of Mark a few years earlier .
For a long time, the family participated together with other important patrician families, such as the Bracken , of Hoevel and from Cologne coming and Hanseatic - distance trade as particularly represented in Dortmund's city government Klepping , at wholesale to England . In Soest, too, where they acquired citizenship in 1522 , they soon belonged to the first urban noble families.
The family, which appeared in several lines from 1400 onwards, still exists today. A branch from Dortmund came to Scheidingen and was well off with Heidhof near Hamm . Another branch owned goods to Rudolfslohe, Mielinghausen and Hüttinghausen near Soest, Dykburg near Munster and to Hüsten an der Ruhr . One line came as far as Silesia , another is called von Berswordt-Wallrabe and is wealthy in Weitmar .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a jumping silver boar in red . On the helm of the boar growing between an open red flight . The helmet covers are red-silver.
Well-known namesake
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Berswordt-Wallrabe (1745–1814), lord of the house of Weitmar
- Friedrich von Berswordt-Wallrabe (1804–1880), lord of the house in Kemnade
- Wilhelm von Berswordt-Wallrabe, major in Wetzlar
- Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe (* 1943), art dealer
- Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (* 1944 in Sagan), State Museum Director of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Johann von der Berswordt (1574–1640), Westphalian historian and author of the Historia Westphalieae
- Ludwig von Berswordt-Wallrabe (1844–1926), member of the Prussian provincial council
- Rudolf von Berswordt (1817–1877), Prussian district administrator in the Oels district
- Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe (* 1970), German art historian, exhibition organizer and author
See also
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN 0435-2408
- Otto Hupp : Munich calendar 1930. Book a. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1930.
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels , Volume 1, 1896, published by WT Bruer, p. 195. Digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1859, pp. 375–376. ( Digitized version )
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 1, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, p. 221. ( digitized version )
Web links
- Document registers from the von Berswordt-Wallrabe family archive / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Coat of arms of the family Berswordt or Berswordt gen. Walrabe in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility in Gen-Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dortmund City Archives, No. 11 b, in the Westphalian Document Book, Vol. VII, Münster, 1908, No. 688a.
- ↑ http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Haus_Weitmar_(Weitmar)
- ↑ https://www.kortumgesellschaft.de/id-7-heimatbuch-1958-conrad-bergmann-der-langendreerer-lehrer-und-dichter.html
- ↑ https://www.kunstforum.de/person/berswordt-wallrabe-alexander-von/
- ↑ http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/alumni/alumni-interviews/berswordt-wallrabe.html ( Memento from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )